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swinging-stars-from-satellites · 2 years

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ladies I watched See How They Run tonight and not only was it HILARIOUS and absolutely refreshing in its simplicity, it also used cinematography as a narrative framing device and I'm FASCINATED by the lighting

#girls we may have a new Film(TM)#like... there's no virtue signaling like some recent movies do there's no modernization #it just IS what it IS!!!!!!! and that is so incredibly refreshing #it's a mystery it's vaguely arthousey in the way most searchlight films are it's an exploration of narrative devices #and the fourth wall it's most of all a PERIOD PIECE and goshDANG is it good at Being all that #and re: the lighting: a lot of the settings are very dark — dark wood dark green walls dark streets — but they don't FEEL dark #like you can still see and the lighting is very bright and very warm and idk how to explain it but BALANCED #and stalker is one of my new favorite characters from anything ever #she's just so GOOD at heart and so determined and hopeful despite despite despite and she's got a solid set of morals #that she's not afraid to voice and stand by #I'm just- AUGHJDNXJSMSN i dont recall the last time i was so utterly simply PLEASED by a recent film #like even free guy (my beloved) didn't hit quite like this i mean yes free guy is Good but this is just. absolutely STELLAR #i might have more thoughts in the morning perhaps #i just love stories that deal directly with The Narrative as a character and the framing devices/4th wall breaks/narrative-based #jokes were just SO GOOD. nothing felt shoehorned in it all just IS. it is what it is and it's fantastic #Lu rambles

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